Too Much Quotes - Page 24

• People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.

  Os Guinness

  People, World, Littles

  Os Guinness (2010). “The Last Christian on Earth: Uncover the Enemy's Plot to Undermine the Church”, p.225, Gospel Light Publications

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• Too much is just enough.

  Mark Twain

  Enough

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• Listen Jesus to the warning I give. Please remember that I want us to live. But it's sad to see our chances weakening with every hour. All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds. It was beautiful, but now it's sour. Yes, it's all gone sour.

  Tim Rice

  Beautiful, Jesus, Giving

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• It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

  William Carey

  Giving, Credit, Persevere

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• If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.

  Bruce McCall

  Attitude, Pride, Ideas

  Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage

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• We spoke to God about the children, and we were afraid to ask God for specific things. We thought that it might be too much. So we said to God 'Please give us a healthy child' and left it at that, not knowing that God is a generous God, but also has a sense of humor. And if you leave that much open for God, some wonderful jokes are going to come about.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Knowing, Giving

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• Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

  Woody Allen

  Movie Love, Suffering, Unhappy

  "Love and Death". www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• Image and music always works together for me. I think they're equally important and I've always done things in a way that people remember them by, but I don't set out to just shock people...because that's very easy, a lot of people could do that, I just like to do things the way that makes me happy really. And sometimes that's too much for certain people, but, you know, I try to push the envelope to make the boundaries wider as far as what you can and can't do in music.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Working Together

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• I think there's a danger with any great art, that if you begin to test your ideas on other people, and get their opinions before making decisions, or if you pay too much attention to what other people say about what you create, that it really pollutes your expression. I think that I'm much more about pure art and honesty and expressing exactly what I feel, and not caring so much what anyone says. However, I do respect, and I do pay attention to everyone's comments. And I do take them into consideration. But I don't base my decisions by it

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Honesty, Caring

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• I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

  Elijah Wood

  Band, Music Love, I Love Music

  "TV Watch: Elijah Wood 'Daily Show' Transcript". "The Daily Show" with John Stewart, www.theonering.net. January 8, 2004.

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• I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Government, Swings, People

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• Year after year in Washington, budget debates seem to come down to an old, tired argument: on one side, those who want more government, regardless of the cost; on the other, those who want less government, regardless of the need....Government has a role, and an important role. Yet, too much government crowds out initiative and hard work, private charity and the private economy....Government should be active, but limited; engaged, but not overbearing.

  George W. Bush

  Hard Work, Tired, Years

  Address to Joint Session of Congress, delivered 27 February 2001

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• Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

  William James

  Expression, Asceticism, Ease

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.272, Library of America

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• [The] majority of the girls working there had major emotional problems. And not cries-too-much emotional problems; more like stabs-her-boyfriend-with-a-steak-knife-then-falls-into-a-corner-and-starts-whispering-to-herself emotional problems.

  Justin Halpern

  Girl, Fall, Emotional

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• I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Waste, Wealth

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• The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Doe, Trouble

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.126, Regnery Publishing

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• People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend too much on advertising - and demanding that the government pass laws based on their ignorance.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ignorance, Government, Law

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.204, Hoover Press

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• The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the beginning of his speech. It is an America in which the government, rather than the private sector, creates wealth and leads ignorant, helpless people by the nose from cradle to grave, from preschool to the academy, with the caveat that if they succeed too much, they will make themselves enemies of the state and targets for punitive action. Obama's new American dreams is an American nightmare.

  David Limbaugh

  Dream, America, Government

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• There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Perfection, Joy, Suffering

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• You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.

  Renata Scotto

  Butterfly, Years, Suffering

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• All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time

  Aldous Huxley

  Long, Democracy, Important

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• Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

  John Templeton

  Thrifty

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• As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes. It is a mistake to think that one limits one's risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence. . . . One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

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• I think it took me a little while to be true to myself as a designer, and in some ways I'm still trying to do that. I have to choose things that come naturally to me. Whenever I challenge something too much or try too hard, it never quite works out.

  Stella McCartney

  Thinking, Work Out, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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